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Your Custom Mokume Gane Ring - Choosing Your Palette
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One of the first choices you may make in designing your custom mokume gane ring is which palette you would like! There are many possibilities, each metal combination offers a different look.
Check out our gorgeous Design Guide, which shows the metals used in each of our stocked palettes. All of our mokume gane is made with only precious metals, recycled and nickel free. One of the most beautiful aspects of our mokume work is its multi-colored nature.
We thought we would group our options into a few categories to show the range of options. See what suits your and your partners taste.
Warm toned palettes:
Red gold forward
Flame Embers
Yellow gold forward
Spark Flare
Generally Warm
(these palettes have both red and yellow gold, so they vary between leaning toward either color, and Blaze in particular feels very warm and vivid as it’s all gold, no silver)
Fire Firestorm
Blaze Cinders
Cool/Neutral toned palettes:
Smoke Ash
Our palettes are fire themed, as Arn feels drawn to the making process of mokume itself, using heat and fire to bond the metals. So rather than naming based on the wood grain appearance of the patterns, he draws inspiration from the forge itself.
A benefit of a ring made in mokume gane is that they are made with precious metals which inherently offer vivid and lively color combinations. As opposed to an option like damascus, which would always be only shades of gray, as damascus is made in steel.
Mokume gane wedding rings combine the luxury and beauty of gold and silver as traditional materials, with a more unique and contemporary organic style. They are the perfect choice for the individual who wants to use precious and high quality materials that hold value and stand up to time.
With our custom design options, you can also choose a completely custom billet if one of our stock options isn’t exactly what you’re envisioning. We can incorporate other precious metals like 18 or 22kt golds or platinum.
Along with the metal palette, finish affects how the colors of your ring will look!
Oxidation darkens the silver layers of the ring, and this overall gives the ring a higher contrast look. This is one of Arn’s distinctive design choices that sets him apart from other artists.
Shown here: Firestorm, satin finish (left image) vs etched & oxidized (right image)
Etching is also a consideration with finish, this is part of Arn’s signature in his work, many other mokume makers do not etch their rings, but Arn feels it adds contrast, only enhancing the patterns and bringing out small details that would be harder to see with a smooth finish. Etching also adds to the resemblance the rings have to wood, a trademark element of mokume gane.
Once you have chosen your palette you can move on to the pattern. We will go into this in our next blog. Please sign up for our mailing list so that you can have new blogs, sales, and news delivered to your inbox.
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Your Custom Mokume Gane Ring - Choosing Your Palette
Posted by Susan Freda on
One of the first choices you may make in designing your custom mokume gane ring is which palette you would like! There are many possibilities, each metal combination offers a different look.
Check out our gorgeous Design Guide, which shows the metals used in each of our stocked palettes. All of our mokume gane is made with only precious metals, recycled and nickel free. One of the most beautiful aspects of our mokume work is its multi-colored nature.
We thought we would group our options into a few categories to show the range of options. See what suits your and your partners taste.
Warm toned palettes:
Red gold forward
Flame Embers
Yellow gold forward
Spark Flare
Generally Warm
(these palettes have both red and yellow gold, so they vary between leaning toward either color, and Blaze in particular feels very warm and vivid as it’s all gold, no silver)
Fire Firestorm
Blaze Cinders
Cool/Neutral toned palettes:
Smoke Ash
Our palettes are fire themed, as Arn feels drawn to the making process of mokume itself, using heat and fire to bond the metals. So rather than naming based on the wood grain appearance of the patterns, he draws inspiration from the forge itself.
A benefit of a ring made in mokume gane is that they are made with precious metals which inherently offer vivid and lively color combinations. As opposed to an option like damascus, which would always be only shades of gray, as damascus is made in steel.
Mokume gane wedding rings combine the luxury and beauty of gold and silver as traditional materials, with a more unique and contemporary organic style. They are the perfect choice for the individual who wants to use precious and high quality materials that hold value and stand up to time.
With our custom design options, you can also choose a completely custom billet if one of our stock options isn’t exactly what you’re envisioning. We can incorporate other precious metals like 18 or 22kt golds or platinum.
Along with the metal palette, finish affects how the colors of your ring will look!
Oxidation darkens the silver layers of the ring, and this overall gives the ring a higher contrast look. This is one of Arn’s distinctive design choices that sets him apart from other artists.
Shown here: Firestorm, satin finish (left image) vs etched & oxidized (right image)
Etching is also a consideration with finish, this is part of Arn’s signature in his work, many other mokume makers do not etch their rings, but Arn feels it adds contrast, only enhancing the patterns and bringing out small details that would be harder to see with a smooth finish. Etching also adds to the resemblance the rings have to wood, a trademark element of mokume gane.
Once you have chosen your palette you can move on to the pattern. We will go into this in our next blog. Please sign up for our mailing list so that you can have new blogs, sales, and news delivered to your inbox.
We never share your email with anyone and we only send one email per month.
Thanks for reading and supporting handmade work!